Happy Europe Day

Steyn Online ^ | May 9, 2006 | Mark Steyn

[caveat emptor]

EUROPE DAY

Did you know there was a "Europe Day"? A day to celebrate the EU? Me neither. But May 9th is it. Here's some thoughts of mine on the poor doomed European Union:

Question: What do you get when you take two world wars, add the two most malign ideologies of the century, throw in genocide, the collapse of religious institutions, radical secularism, a political elite sealed off from opinions it finds distasteful, spiraling social costs, deathbed demographics and growing numbers of an unassimilated immigrant population?

Answer: You get Europe in the new millennium - mired in aggressive pacifism, moral nihilism, resurgent anti-semitism and reflex anti-Americanism.

[caveat emptor]

Read it all here .

[Tzimisce]

Europe Day?

I'm going to celebrate by praying in the direction of Mecca, blowing up a car and sending weapons to Iran...

[MARKUSPRIME]

Im so glad I was born in the US. :)

[wizardoz]

bookmark for later

[sheik yerbouty]

I'll have a few beers and Euronate..

[Physicist]

Leave it to the liberals to celebrate E.D.

[mallardx]

Great article - thanks for posting.

[EternalHope]

Great article.

Another Steyn home run. How can one person be so consistently outstanding?

[blitzgig]

Europe Day? Oh, big whoop! They can have their sissy socialism, secularism, and elitism.

AMERICA ROCKS BUMP!

[Mobile Vulgus]

HAPPY EUROPE DAY Got a tip from Columnist Mark Steyn that today, May 9th, is “Europe Day”.

Well, break out the balloons and horns for the celebration. Of course, all that celebration paraphernalia should be colored black for it shouldn’t be a celebration we participate in as much as a time of mourning for Western civilization lost in Europe.

As France burns, as Germany can’t get below 15% unemployment for any large amount of time, as the Dutch, the Netherlands, Norwegians, Swedes et al find their national identity eclipsed by an uncontrolled Islamic invasion that wrecks their support systems and Balkanizes their society, as the Spanish and Italians turn back to the failed policies of socialism … well, Europe is imploding. Its history is being eliminated by socialist EU policies and unassimilated immigrants bringing their poverty and hatred with them from the Mid East.

So, the funeral procession is gathering waiting for the embalmer to be done with the body Europa. But, the dearly departed won’t have a quite and respectful funeral, for sure. Europe’s killers will be celebrating like drunken Rock stars destroying their hotel rooms and raping their way across the country.

Happy Europe Day to all of you. (From my blog Publius' Forum

[longtermmemmory]

Its about propaganda FEEEEEEEELING as one homogenous European Nation.

Its about eliminating borders and all the europeans feeeeeeeling as one identity.

iow. goebles.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

" it’s not a constitution, it’s a perfectly fine party platform for a rather stodgy semi-obsolescent social democratic party. Its constitutional “rights” - the right to housing assistance, the right to preventive action on the environment – are not constitutional at all, but the sort of things parties ought to be arguing about at election time."

Steyn (a Canadian) could have been talking about the failed "Charlottetown Accord" package of proposed Canadian constitutional amendments, which was supported by all of the elite, and rejected by hoi polloi. Here's an excerpt from the official summary:

"The social policy objectives would include comprehensive, universal, portable, accessible, publicly administered health care; adequate social services and benefits; high quality primary and secondary education and reasonable access to post-secondary education; collective bargaining rights; and a commitment to protecting, preserving and sustaining the integrity of the environment."

The summary glosses over some of the items actually in the document -- e.g. "to ensure that all individuals resident in Canada have reasonable access to housing...". Could there be any doubt that the Courts would have interpreted this to mean free housing for all who ask?

[caveat emptor]

Steyn (a Canadian) could have been talking about the failed "Charlottetown Accord" package of proposed Canadian constitutional amendments, which was supported by all of the elite, and rejected by hoi polloi.

Far too many Canadians (and Americans) are EU wannabees, including, apparently, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the SCOC. See here for details of a recent flap about her views on her current job.

[Petronski]

Europe Day?

Have they co-opted V-E day to celebrate the EU?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The Supremes (anywhere) are inherently antidemocratic. They are modeled after Plato's "philosopher kings". We hoi polli are not capable of such wisdom.

[NZerFromHK]

Interestingly, Norway is EU-esque but is outside the EU itself and it has voted time again to stay out of it. I wonder when they realize on most policy areas - from economic to welfare to foreign/defece policies - the stance of their keep-out-of-the-EU Socialists are about 99.9% identical with their Eurocrat Socialist brothers in Belgium?

[caveat emptor]

The Supremes (anywhere) are inherently antidemocratic. They are modeled after Plato's "philosopher kings". We hoi polli are not capable of such wisdom.

Nah. More referee than roi de philosophe. True, they should have more intelligence than the average Collie dog, but also more humility than the average Ober Leutnant during the occupation of Paris. Many fail the latter condition, including, evidently, Ms. McLachlin, but not all.

[caveat emptor]

Europe Day? Have they co-opted V-E day to celebrate the EU?

Ha. Looks suspicious, doesn't it. Maybe a subtle reminder to the Germans of what the EU is all about.